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Jda Programming Language
A systems language bootstrapped from assembly that beats C
Jda is a systems language built from scratch — zero C, zero Rust, zero Python. Bootstrapped from raw x86-64 assembly, self-hosted, compiles itself. Beats C on LZ77 by 6.6×, sudoku by 1.5×, regex by 1.9× — running via Rosetta 2 x86-64 on Apple Silicon. 43ms compile time (33× faster than Rust). No GC. Green threads + channels. Tensors, autograd, AVX-512/CUDA/ROCm. 117 stdlib packages. 388 tests passing. https://jdalang.org
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Jai, the creator of Jda.
Jda started as a question: can you build a real systems language with zero
external dependencies — no C, no Rust, no Python anywhere in the toolchain?
The answer turned out to be yes. The compiler is bootstrapped from raw x86-64
assembly, written entirely in Jda, and compiles itself to a byte-identical binary.
The result that surprised me most: on LZ77 compression, Jda runs 6.6× faster
than C and 7.9× faster than Rust — while running via Rosetta 2 x86-64 on Apple
Silicon. Not even native ARM64 yet. Two compiler optimizations do the work:
MOD→AND strength reduction (eliminates every IDIV in the inner loop) and LICM
(hoists the first-byte filter out of the match scan). C, Rust, and Go all keep
the slower form.
What's in v1.1.0:
→ macOS native backend (jda build --macos)
→ Self-hosted compiler — 388 conformance tests passing
→ 117 stdlib packages
→ Green threads + channels (no GC)
→ Tensors, autograd, neural networks with AVX-512/CUDA/ROCm
→ Full-stack web framework (Jda Forge)
→ 43ms compile time — 33× faster than Rust
I'd love to hear:
- What's missing before you'd try it?
- What feels wrong about the language design?
- What benchmark would you want to see next?
Install: curl -sSf https://jdalang.org/install.sh | sh
GitHub: https://github.com/jdalang/jda-lang
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“A systems language bootstrapped from assembly that beats C”
Jda Programming Language was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #143 on the daily leaderboard. Jda is a systems language built from scratch — zero C, zero Rust, zero Python. Bootstrapped from raw x86-64 assembly, self-hosted, compiles itself. Beats C on LZ77 by 6.6×, sudoku by 1.5×, regex by 1.9× — running via Rosetta 2 x86-64 on Apple Silicon. 43ms compile time (33× faster than Rust). No GC. Green threads + channels. Tensors, autograd, AVX-512/CUDA/ROCm. 117 stdlib packages. 388 tests passing. https://jdalang.org
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